December 2007, to be published in Physical Review D15


Vacuum polarization of massive spinor fields in static black-string backgrounds
Owen Pavel Fern\'{a}ndez Piedra and Alejandro Cabo Montes de Oca

The renormalized mean value of the quantum Lagrangian and the corresponding components of the Energy-Momentum tensor for massive spinor fields coupled to an arbitrary gravitational field configuration having cylindrical symmetry are analytically evaluated using the Schwinger-DeWitt approximation, up to second order in the inverse mass value. The general results are employed to explicitly derive compact analytical expressions for the quantum mean Lagrangian and Energy-Momentum tensor in the particular background of the Black-String space-time.

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